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Expanding on a groundbreaking framework, this revised edition connects activist art education with current campaigns for social justice.   Nearly a decade after Social Justice Art, innovative arts educator Marit Dewhurst returns with a new edition offering further guidance for developing meaningful, justice-centered art programming. Reflecting on a growing interest in the field and its place within larger movements that uses creative strategies to drive social change, Dewhurst brings new research to bear on her interviews with educators, artists, and students to suggest clear, actionable approaches to facilitating the collaborative process of creating art for social change.    In Social Justice Art Education, Dewhurst examines how to teach art-making to address systems of injustice, how to talk about the process, and the role of activist art projects not only in school classrooms but also within museum education, afterschool education, and other youth programming. In a new chapter, she introduces essential steps that prepare educators to engage in this work: recognizing power differentials, identifying community strengths, and nurturing relationships. Through real-world examples, Dewhurst highlights three key learning processes—connecting, questioning, and transforming—and frames a critical arts pedagogy that incorporates collaboration, inquiry-based discussion, and changemaking into arts curricula.    This invigorating work provides common language and concrete support for educators and others who want to expand and refine their practices, empowering students through liberatory education that aims to inspire social change.

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"""Social Justice Art Education offers clear pathways toward the endeavor's 'purposes, practices, and products' while vividly illuminating its complexity for teachers, administrators, parents, funders, and policymakers. The field needs this book to avoid passionate superficiality by employing a simple framework to promote quality and depth as youth speak their minds."" --Lois Hetland, professor emerita, Massachusetts College of Art and Design ""This updated edition of an already invaluable book is a gift to all educators, not just those explicitly teaching art. It is for every one of us committed to embracing the many mediums through which young people create their own visions of new, more beautiful worlds."" --Carla Shalaby, coordinator of social justice initiatives and community internships, Marsal Family School of Education, University of Michigan"

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Marit Dewhurst is professor of art and museum education at City College of New York and writes and teaches about how the arts can help us collectively imagine and create more just and caring worlds.

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